From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Generic RTC class support for ppc_md.[gs]et_rtc_time
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:36:37 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1196721397.13230.236.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1196715974.13978.176.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 21:06 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 07:45 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 17:04 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > It would be good to migrate the platform code to register RTC devices
> > > directly, but for now this will make them functional enough for most
> > > purposes...
> >
> > Wouldn't it be best to do the other way around at some stage ?
>
> Yes, definitely. We can migrate them one at a time to the RTC class.
>
> > We need to solve the problem of ppc_md. stuff being called by the core
> > in atomic contexts first though.
>
> Where from?
Worst one is time_init :-) Way too early to do any i2c babbling. Then
there used to be something with the NTP writeback, dunno if it's
changed.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-03 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-03 17:04 [PATCH] Generic RTC class support for ppc_md.[gs]et_rtc_time David Woodhouse
2007-12-03 20:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-12-03 21:06 ` David Woodhouse
2007-12-03 22:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-12-03 22:44 ` David Woodhouse
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